Politicians and union leaders have warned of potentially disastrous consequences for some businesses in the supply chain, especially smaller companies. "If bits of the supply chain go under that's going to make a restart at JLR much more difficult," he told BBC Radio WM. He told BBC Radio WM that he believed government intervention was "inevitable" as the consequences otherwise would be too severe. "If we lose that supply chain [we're] not going to get it back. Antonia Bance, the Labour MP for Tipton and Wednesbury, said there was a risk of "a disintegration of the entire supply chain into JLR".